Sudip Bose is the managing editor of the Scholar.
Sudip Bose
In Praise of Chadwick
Remembering one of American music’s founding fathers
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, April 04, 2019
Bach’s Birthday Returns
The young Bruno Maderna sought inspiration in the past
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, March 21, 2019
The Summit Revealed
Alan Hovhaness and his Mysterious Mountain
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, March 07, 2019
An American Impressionist
What Charles Griffes wrote during his brief life leaves us wanting more
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, February 07, 2019
Requiem for Fanny
Mendelssohn’s final expression of grief
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, January 24, 2019
The World Becomes a Dream, the Dream Becomes a World
Wolfgang Rihm’s Astralis
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, December 13, 2018
Making Himself at Home
A German-born composer and his English oratorios
by Sudip Bose | Monday, December 03, 2018
The Maestro as Engineer
Ernest Ansermet and Arthur Honegger’s speeding train
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, November 29, 2018
The Virtuoso as Aristocrat
Jorge Bolet and one memorable night in 1974
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, November 15, 2018
The Power of Musick
Handel, Dryden, and Alexander the Great
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, October 18, 2018
The Boy Romantic
Erich Wolfgang Korngold and his musical snowman
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, October 04, 2018
A Tingling Spine Every Time
Some of classical music’s most sublime moments
by Sudip Bose | Tuesday, October 02, 2018
The Lonely Heath at Twilight
Gustav Holst, Thomas Hardy, and a musical portrait of a timeless place
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, September 27, 2018
A Requiem of One’s Own
Stravinsky’s late 12-tone masterpiece
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, September 20, 2018
Happy Birthday, Clara Schumann
The compositions of the eminent pianist are finally getting their due
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, September 13, 2018
A Sunset in Song
Ottorino Respighi and Percy Bysshe Shelley
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, September 06, 2018
Mozart in Sun and Shadow
A novella imagines a day with the great composer
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, August 23, 2018
Bernstein on Bach
Learning about counterpoint on network TV
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, August 16, 2018
The Virtuoso as Artist
Remembering Ruggiero Ricci on the centenary of his birth
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, August 02, 2018
Who’s the Boss?
When conductor and soloist clash, a concerto performance can turn into a contest of wills
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, July 26, 2018
The Man Who Loved Proust
Reynaldo Hahn and the sounds of the beautiful age
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, May 24, 2018
The Conquered Ear
Roger Sessions’s Eighth Symphony, 50 years after its premiere
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, May 10, 2018
Lilacs for Lincoln (and Kennedy and King)
Roger Sessions, part II
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, May 17, 2018
Requiem for an Angel
A concerto and its nearly disastrous premiere
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, May 31, 2018
The Séance and Robert Schumann
How did a long-lost concerto finally come to light?
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, October 19, 2017
Final Regret
The Baroque opera that Claude Debussy wanted to see before he died
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, March 22, 2018
Who Was Laura Valborg Aulin?
A glimpse at the composer of a grand, serious—and forgotten—masterpiece
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, March 15, 2018
A Day in the Life
Reading Joyce’s Ulysses as a guide to urban living
by Sudip Bose | Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Doppelgängers
What does Schubert sound like on a jazzy bass trombone?
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, February 01, 2018
The Cult of Johanna Martzy
Forgotten at her death, yet treasured for her recordings
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, January 18, 2018
A Year in the Desert
Elliott Carter and his revolutionary first string quartet
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, January 11, 2018
Marching Into 2018
Has Johann Strauss ever sounded so foreboding?
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, January 04, 2018
Among the Believers
Handel’s Messiah didn’t always have a sacred context
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, December 21, 2017
Honorable Mention
When America aspired to be first in the arts as well as war
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, November 30, 2017
A Week of Webern
Chances to hear the master’s music live are all too rare
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, November 16, 2017
Beethoven in the Blitz
When the bombs fell, Myra Hess played on
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, November 09, 2017
The Sequel as Rebirth
What could Hector Berlioz do to follow up his most fantastic symphony?
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, October 26, 2017
Sonic Fields of Dark and Light
Morton Feldman and his Rothko Chapel
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, November 02, 2017
Crushed Cadences and Vented Rests
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, October 12, 2017
The Scholar-Pianist
Paul Badura-Skoda on his 90th birthday
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, October 05, 2017
Crossing Over
Kiri Te Kanawa and Richard Strauss’s final songs
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, September 28, 2017
Songs of Innocence
Fauré, Verlaine, and the music of eternal hope
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, September 21, 2017
A Poet of the Heart
The brief career of Guillaume Lekeu
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, September 14, 2017
Mahler in the Jungle
The Mexican composer who championed the people, and who memorably depicted the Yucatán on film
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, September 07, 2017
Schubert Everlasting
Sviatoslav Richter and a music like no other
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, August 17, 2017
A Little Night Music
Hearing Gurrelieder on a stormy night
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, August 10, 2017
Driving Rhythms, Beguiling Sounds
The music of Erkki-Sven Tüür
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, August 03, 2017
Great Escape
On Normandy’s coast a century ago, Claude Debussy fled the war and composed his final piano masterpiece
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, June 29, 2017
Sound and Silence
Jean Sibelius and the symphony that never was
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, June 22, 2017
Great Escape
On Normandy’s coast a century ago, Claude Debussy fled the war and composed his final piano masterpiece
by Sudip Bose | Wednesday, March 04, 2015
The Canyons, the Stars, and the Realm Beyond
Olivier Messiaen’s tribute to America
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, May 18, 2017
Kinderszenen
A love of music should be nurtured from the start
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, April 27, 2017
In Search of Lasting Peace
Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, April 20, 2017
Out of the Closet
The strange case of Erica Morini’s Stradivarius
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, April 13, 2017
Sound and Scandal
When music mattered enough to start a fight
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, March 30, 2017
Sound and Silence
Georg Friedrich Haas and Mozart’s Requiem
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, March 09, 2017
The Short, Tragic Life of Dinu Lipatti
Remembering the pianist on his centenary
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, March 02, 2017
The Conscience of Adolf Busch
He’d return to Germany, he said, when Hitler was hanged
by Sudip Bose | Wednesday, February 15, 2017
In Praise of Vinyl
Returning to a more tactile, immersive experience
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, February 09, 2017
Remembering Rostropovich
A defender of the arts during authoritarian rule
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, February 02, 2017
The Inimitable Christian Ferras
What darkness lay beneath his excellence?
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, January 26, 2017
A Tale of Two Concerts
Music meant politics at Richard Nixon’s second inauguration
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, January 19, 2017
The Old Master
Neville Marriner breathed new life into Baroque music, with a sense of drive and panache
by Sudip Bose | Monday, December 05, 2016
It Beggared All Description
The famous flop that opened the Met
by Sudip Bose | Monday, June 06, 2016
The Sound of Silence
Jean Sibelius and the symphony that never was
by Sudip Bose | Monday, February 29, 2016
Vermeer and the Art of Solitude
Some works are not meant to be blockbusters
by Sudip Bose | Monday, December 07, 2015
When the Angry Lion Roared
Pierre Boulez and the piece that marked his breakthrough as a composer
by Sudip Bose | Monday, September 07, 2015
Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare
Sophisticated and never condescending
by Sudip Bose | Monday, October 05, 2015
An Epic in Flux
Gilgamesh, the world's first great literary work, is still being pieced together
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, March 01, 2007
The World All Before Them
Setting off on footpaths both well-trod and forgotten
by Sudip Bose | Friday, March 01, 2013
Incident at Mittersill
A new opera explores the mysterious death of the composer Anton Webern
by Sudip Bose | Friday, December 06, 2013
Atonality and Beyond
The century when composers and audiences parted company
by Sudip Bose | Saturday, September 01, 2007
Cal & Liz & Ted & Sylvia
The corresponding prose of midcentury poets
by Sudip Bose | Monday, December 01, 2008
Enlightenment Lite
by Sudip Bose | Saturday, March 01, 2008
Lenny's Little Chats
Envy the children who learned music from the maestro, Leonard Bernstein
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, December 01, 2005
On Virtuosity
A mastery of technique ought to be exalted, not disdained
by Sudip Bose | Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Vibrato Wars
Elgar, served neat and unshaken, stirs up the Brits
by Sudip Bose | Sunday, March 01, 2009
In Praise of Flubs
The pursuit of perfection has taken all the personality out of recorded classical music
